Indian Navy to conduct second edition of Sea Vigil , largest coastal defence exercise, today Sea Vigil is meant to check the efficacy of safety procedures put in place after the 26/11 terror attack, when terrorists had entered Mumbai via the sea route FP Staff January 12, 2021 13:04:58 IST The biennial pan-India coastal defence exercise, inaugural edition of which was conducted in January 2019, will be undertaken along the entire 7,516 km coastline and Exclusive Economic Zone of India. ANI
The Indian Navy will kick-start the second edition of mega defence exercise, Sea Vigil, on Tuesday. The two-day exercise will cover the country s 13 coastal states and Union Territories along with other maritime stakeholders, officials said.
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Indian Navy to conduct pan-India coastal defence exercise from Jan 12
The Indian Navy will conduct a two-day biennial pan-India coastal defence exercise Sea Vigil-21  from Tuesday to review its coastal security preparedness. Billed as India s largest coastal defence exercise, it was first conducted in January 2019.
The exercise will be undertaken along the entire 7516 km coastline and Exclusive Economic Zone of India and involve all the 13 coastal states and union territories along with other maritime stakeholders, including fishing and coastal communities.Â
The exercise is being coordinated by the Indian Navy.Â
The entire coastal security set-up was reorganised after the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai, which the Pakistan-backed terrorists carried out by the sea route.
The Indian Navy will kick-start on Tuesday a two-day multi-agency military exercise covering India s 7,516 km-long coastline, involving 13 coastal states and Union Territories, to further bolster maritime security and surveillance, officials said. Billed as India s largest coastal defence drill, the second edition of exercise Sea Vigil is being organised to check the efficacy of the measures initiated to plug gaps in coastal security following the Mumbai terror attack in 2008, they said. The scale and conceptual expanse of the exercise is unprecedented in terms of the geographical extent, the number of stakeholders involved, the number of units participating and in terms of the objectives to be met, the Indian Navy said.